There is only one force of history that can break the reign of hatred and resentment and expose the pretensions of tyrants… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
The essence of oligarchical rule is not father-to-son inheritance, but the persistence of a certain world-view and a certain way of life,… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The idea of perfection can be a tyrant you should overthrow, to gain your freedom. — Kate Grenville Copy Share Image
The Past is the textbook of tyrants; the Future is the Bible of the Free. — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
What country before ever existed a century and a half without a rebellion? And what country can preserve its liberties if their… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I love something: and scarcely do I love it completely when the tyrant in me says: "I want that in sacrifice." This… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Work becomes at once a delight and a tyrant. For even when the time comes and you can relax, you hardly know… — Alice Foote MacDougall Copy Share Image
Have you ever heard of a woman bloody dictator or tyrant? I think not. If there were more women in power, I… — Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj Copy Share Image
O slavish man! will you not bear with your own brother, who has God for his Father, as being a son from… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Of those men who have overturned the liberties of republics, the greatest number have begun their career by paying an obsequious court… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
The law is an expression of God 's holy will and as such must be honored and loved," said the preacher piously.… — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
“I desire you would remember the ladies, and be more generous and favourable to them than your ancestors. Do not put such… — Abigail Adams Copy Share Image
And now, my friend, I am going to expose to you all my weaknesses. All men, I believe, are under a necessity… — Peter Abelard Copy Share Image
When your little child tells a lie, do not rush at him as though the world were about to go into bankruptcy.… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The power of the press in America is a primordial one. It sets the agenda of public discussion; and this sweeping political… — Theodore White Copy Share Image
The right of revolution, which tyrants, in mockery, accord to mankind, is no legal right under a government; it is only a… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
“Tyranny is like the electric wiring in an old house. A tyrant dies, the new tyrant takes possession, and all he has… — John Le Carre Copy Share Image
The moment a man claims a right to control the will of a fellow being by physical force, he is at heart… — Henry Clarke Wright Copy Share Image
In a despotic government, the only principle by which the tyrant who is to move the whole machine means to regulate and… — Samuel Williams Copy Share Image
O sir, we should have fine times, indeed, if, to punish tyrants, it were only sufficient to assemble the people! Your arms,… — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image